Will the Emerging Climate Movement Help Cleantech?

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 13 September 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

After failing to pass a climate bill in 2010, the environmental movement has seen a new surge of activism mobilized by the fight against Keystone XL. So what are the implications for the clean energy sector? And are advocates and business leaders learning anything from this new movement? This week, the Energy Gang will debate the effectiveness of the environmental movement, and look at its relationship with the clean energy business community. Then, we'll look at the political fight around Ron Binz, the man tapped by President Obama to run the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC is not usually in the news, but new fears about the death of coal are infusing Binz's confirmation with partisan politics. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of September 13th, 2013, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green
0:09.5	Green Tech Media. media.
0:15.0	I'm Stephen Lacey, senior editor at Green Tech Media here in Washington, D.C. again this week.
0:21.0	On Friday the 13th, where it doesn't even look like the sun
0:25.4	came up here this morning. Just a dark brooding day. Hopefully not a sign of
0:29.6	things to come. Also in Washington is Catherine Hamilton, the founder of 38 North Solutions.
0:36.0	Catherine, how's it going? Are you a superstitious person?
0:39.0	Of course not. I'm the optimist and I'm just glad to be back home from a great conference in San Jose.
0:46.0	So you're not podcasting with like a ring of garlic around your neck today or anything?
0:50.0	No, Stephen, that's for vampires.
0:52.0	And in New York City is Jigger Shaw author of the upcoming book Creating Climate Wealth
0:59.5	Jigger what's new and notable this week? You know, I have to say that last night when I landed in New York, there was a big like storm
1:08.5	that I missed by 10 minutes, so I actually think that I'm lucky today.
1:13.0	All right, well, speaking of extreme weather, we're going to talk about climate change today.
1:17.6	This week saw a flurry of really excellent articles on the climate movement's influence on politics, both what it's doing right and what it's
1:24.4	doing wrong.
1:25.4	And in today's show, we're going to have a wide-ranging conversation about the battle over
1:29.6	the Keystone pipeline, what the various thought leaders and ongoing campaigns are doing, and
1:35.7	ask whether environmental groups are actually succeeding in their actions and messaging.
1:41.1	And then we'll go into something a little bit more wonky and talk about Ron Bins,
1:44.6	Obama's choice for chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, just like they did
1:50.0	with Gina McCarthy, the new EPA Administrator, Republicans in the Senate are delaying a vote
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